Stefan Prestel

TL;DR: Pythia 8.2 is the second main release after the complete rewrite from Fortran to C++, and now has reached such a maturity that it offers a complete replacement for most applications, notably for LHC physics studies.

TL;DR: Several major enhancements have been included into VBFNLO, including the implementation of anomalous gauge boson couplings has been extended to all triboson and VBF $VVjj processes, and semileptonic decay modes of the vector bosons are now available for many processes.

TL;DR: The proceedings of the 2013 Les Houches workshop on physics at TeV colliders as discussed by the authors dealt primarily with the techniques for calculating standard model multi-leg NLO and NNLO QCD and NLO EW cross sections and comparison of those cross sections with LHC data from Run 1, and projections for future measurements in Run 2.

TL;DR: The potential reach and opportunities in Higgs physics during the High Luminosity phase of the LHC were summarized in this paper, with an expected dataset of pp collisions at 14 TeV, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 3~ab$^{-1}$.

TL;DR: In this paper, an extension of multi-jet matrix element and parton shower merging approaches, to also include next-to-leading order accuracy, is discussed, which can be used for higher jet multiplicities and other processes, subject to the availability of programs able to correctly generate the corresponding partonic states.